Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20100705:00:48:00
President knows this. he's at root a political pragmatist. he gets a lot of criticism and credit for being a high minded id log. in a way he's a pragmatist. he knows nothing is going to happen here. i thought the clip you pulled was great. he mentions the 11 senator. we all know one of them is john mccain who was his opponent in 2008. the guy who started comprehensive immigration reform with ted kennedy, saw what that did to him, now is running an ad complete the dang fence. i do think the ark of john mccain on the issue in many ways is the arc of the issue politically. people thought let's ge...